Don’t be afraid to take unskilled jobs to slow the financial bleed while you continue your search.
The key to finding a Job is absolutely networking. Take a look for local SW groups, defcon groups, hacker spaces, start up scenes, etc.
I’ve received my last few jobs through networking. I’ve been fortunate enough to not need to job search in a number of years.
Once your settled in a field, network network network.
But you need to know what field to do it in first.
You should broaden your searches. Both by location and vocation.
By the sounds of it you would be a good fit in any operational, logistical, or managerial role. See what remote opportunities there are Canada wide.
I can see this being a breaking change for some strange edge cases and (ab)uses.
-sS80 -sA80 was my goto for CTF boxes.
We have a team of 6 and rotate on call regularly. I’m in the US and receive no benefit for on call specifically, but other regions do. My salary more than covers the inconvenience though.
Very common.
Don’t feel pressured to approve anything you don’t want to, but still be chill. It’s just work after all. (This duality takes years to figure out, but if you can, you’ll be very valuable)
Get the PM involved. Bring it up in retro and stand up.
Examples.
“I don’t feel this is PR is up to our company standards. Here’s a link to the document. Specifically tests are breaking, coverage is reduced, and your using global variables. If you need help with quality we can code pair next sprint or if I finish my tasks early. Let me know”
“Just a reminder that we have 3 PRs with needs work sitting in the queue. If you’re not able to finish them before the end of the sprint, let the scrum master/PM know in case it’s a high priority”
“We’ve all signed off on a standards guideline, and lots of PRs are falling short. Either we need more training time each sprint to reach it, or were going to have to officially reduce our standards. Let me know which one the CTO prefers”
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